Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Topic

Immigration Assimilation

Author

Maxine Hong Kingston

Source

The Woman Warrior

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Kingston, Maxine Hong. "No Name Woman." The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

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An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

Gerald Ford

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Impeachment American politics
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Gerald Ford
Language
English
Time
1970 1970s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Ford, Gerald. Remarks in the U.S. House of Representatives in an effort to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. House of Representatives meeting. 15 Apr. 1970, House of Representatives Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.